Sentences with phrase «academic historians who»

Greater public visibility and scrutiny combined with a desire to tell their story has meant that the intelligence and security services have sought to publish «authorised» if not «official» histories, using academic historians who were made members of the parent organisation.

Richard J Aldrich, an academic historian who works in intelligence, has used open sources but little help from friends within the system, in producing GCHQ: The Uncensored Story of Britain's Most Secret Intelligence Agency (Harper Press # 30).

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In When Time Shall Be No More: Prophecy Belief in Modern American Culture, Paul Boyer, a senior historian at the University of Wisconsin, and one of the best in the business, seeks to address the world of secularized academics and journalists who can scarcely imagine, let alone appreciate, the breadth and depth of popular apocalypticism in contemporary America.

Her genius was in the construction of a public identity of partial affiliation — a university - based historian who never wrote an academic dissertation, a former government official whose career in public service lasted less than two years, an overseer of the national testing program with no particular expertise in testing, and a champion of public school teachers who has never taught in a public school.

Unlike the work of Wassily Kandisky, Piet Mondrian and Kazimir Malevich, who were considered by academic art historians to have been the pioneers of Abstract, most of Klint & rsquo»; «s works were never exhibited during her lifetime.

Designed to be «high level» these Institutes were to attract faculty who were otherwise respected professionals in the law library community, leading scholars, academics, authors, think tank specialists, futurists, philosophers, jurists, lawyers and historians.